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DNI Gabbard Must Reverse “Stupid” US Intelligence on Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program
American Greatness ^ | 18 Apr, 2025 | Fred Fleitz

Posted on 04/18/2025 5:21:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 04/18/2025 5:21:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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The marxists seem to have infiltrated the CIA.


2 posted on 04/18/2025 5:22:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Less than a week...a year or two ago.


3 posted on 04/18/2025 5:24:59 AM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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(Iran claims it is enriching uranium only for peaceful purposes to produce fuel for its one operational nuclear power reactor at Bushehr, two or three small research reactors, and to make radiopharmaceuticals. This claim is farcical.)

There is no way to reason with
Iranian Shia Twelver Mullahs

who believe that a 5-year-old DEAD child
who has been DEAD over 1,150 YEARS is ALIVE
and reading their prayer requests from
deep inside a well behind the
Jamkaran Mosque in Qom, Iran

President Donald Trump
needs to know about this


4 posted on 04/18/2025 5:35:18 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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According to what we are told, they have been close for years. How close? There is no doubt that they would like to have nukes, and they are actively enriching uranium, supposedly for peaceful energy generation.


5 posted on 04/18/2025 5:55:25 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: fuente

- Iran can now enrich enough uranium to fuel one nuclear weapon in less than a week and 14 in about four months, according to a February 2025 report by the Institute for Science and International Security.-

They have been saying for five years that Iran can enrich enough uranium to fuel one nuclear weapon in less than a week and 14 in about four months. So, I think it is safe to say that Iran has several atomic bombs now.

Designing and building an enriched uranium is quite simple once you have the enriched uranium (that’s the hard part).

I could build a 20Kt bomb if I had the enriched uranium even though I am a moron.

The only question is will Iran announce that they have the bomb or will they use them in a massive attack on Isreal.

Scary times.


6 posted on 04/18/2025 5:55:45 AM PDT by bosco24
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How do we know they do not have nukes? They could buy them from North Korea or Pakistan. They have been assisted by A. Q. Khan, the father of the Pakistan nuke program so we don’t really know if they have nukes of their own design yet.


7 posted on 04/18/2025 6:01:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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The only question is will Iran announce that they have the bomb or will they use them in a massive attack on Isreal.

I think they're planning on delivering an EMP weapon over the US. That kind of catastrophe is the big opportunity for permanent martial law.

8 posted on 04/18/2025 6:50:43 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: SaveFerris

There is no way to reason with
Iranian Shia Twelver Mullahs

who believe that a 5-year-old DEAD child
who has been DEAD over 1,150 YEARS is ALIVE
and reading their prayer requests from
deep inside a well behind the
Jamkaran Mosque in Qom, Iran


and believes that he will emerge
from the well if he smells enough blood
to begin a jihad to bring all of humanity
to Paradise by killing everyone.


9 posted on 04/18/2025 7:02:02 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Thanks for bringing us an update from the Deep State.


10 posted on 04/18/2025 7:03:49 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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(and believes that he will emerge
from the well if he smells enough blood
to begin a jihad to bring all of humanity
to Paradise by killing everyone.)

That is an accurate statement. 👍👍

It’s what they are taught.


11 posted on 04/18/2025 7:04:23 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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I could build a 20Kt bomb if I had the enriched uranium even though I am a moron.

Yes, A gun-type collision of subcritical masses does not need the timing of an implosion type warhead. Very easy to make once you have the enriched uranium. It would probably weigh in the 10,000 lb range. I have worked on the engineering on two intermediate range nuclear missile programs. I know quite a bit about the warhead designs, especially the safety and arming.

12 posted on 04/18/2025 7:33:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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This is a holdover from the asinine contention that Iraq had no WMD. BS! They used poison gas on Kurds and killed thousands. It is like conflation. Mix different things so you can lie about the package.

As to Iran, having near-weapons grade is irrelevant. If you can watch, at a moment’s notice, that push up to >90% then you are OK. If you cannot, then no treaty is worth anything. Wasting time/$$ on <90% is just another bureaucracy nattering on to collect a paycheck.


13 posted on 04/18/2025 8:08:01 AM PDT by bobbo666
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U.S. intelligence still claims Iran has no active nuclear weapons program

The Hussein 0bama / Valerie Jarrett traitors are STILL in place!

14 posted on 04/18/2025 8:37:26 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (GOD Bless America and President Trump!)
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I have no doubt they would use a nuke, if they actually had one. Those kind of people don’t have the same kind of sense of self preservation most of the world does. Even though the mullahs in control aren’t suicidal themselves, one of them will get old and terminal, and decide to take as many of his enemies with him as he can. I’ve wondered the same about Kim Jong. Can never know what goes on in their head.


15 posted on 04/18/2025 8:44:30 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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Israel should give Trump time to work out a “deal,” despite the Iranians not being trustworthy to believe on ANY deal. But they can’t wait too long. Eventually, they are going to have to go rogue, as they did in 1981 in taking out Saddam Hussein’s Osirik reactor. Reagan was furious at Begin for that, but within a few years changed his mind and was happy they did it.


16 posted on 04/18/2025 9:03:30 AM PDT by montag813
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-It would probably weigh in the 10,000 lb range.-

5Kt vs 20 Kt. As a moron, I will accept that your value is closer.

-I have worked on the engineering on two intermediate range nuclear missile programs.-

Hmm, the W69 and W80 warheads maybe?


17 posted on 04/18/2025 9:51:55 AM PDT by bosco24
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Hmm, the W69 and W80 warheads maybe?

No. One was W-50 and the other was W85 and W86, but the W-86 variant was cancelled (low yield earth penetrator viewed as too easy to use and could cause nuclear escalation)

18 posted on 04/18/2025 10:00:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Ah yes, Pershings.

Did you guys fix the static electricity issue with the motor?


19 posted on 04/18/2025 10:11:31 AM PDT by bosco24
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I wonder what Israeli intelligence says about the Iranian nukes.


20 posted on 04/18/2025 10:32:03 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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